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Title: Miscellaneous Photographs from Collection #54 Doris Losey
Description: Six miscellaneous images from the Doris Losey Collection at Drake Community Library in Grinnell, Iowa. Doris Losey Krumm was born in Fargo, Oklahoma, on September 15th, 1908, to George C. and Anna Marie Losey. She moved to Grinnell, Iowa, and attended Grinnell High School and Iowa Methodist School of Nursing before marrying Paul Krumm on September 6th, 1942, and settling to farm in the Newburg area. She died on January 29th, 1981, leaving behind her two children, Karen Weaver and Paul Krumm. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #54, Doris Losey (Krumm).
Date Created: 1925
PID: grinnell:18929

Title: Newburg Chester Congregational Church
Description: Color view of the Newburg Chester Congregational Church in 2008. The church was built by Anson Hayden Palmer in 1896.
Date Created: 2008
PID: grinnell:12018

Title: Newburg Church
Description: Black and white photograph of the Newburg Church in Newburg, Jasper County, Iowa in 1908.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:26618

Title: Newburg Congregational - United Church of Christ Centennial Anniversary, 1880-1980
Description: Centennial booklet prepared for the 100th anniversary of the Newburg (Iowa) Congregational - United Church of Christ. Contains a history of the church, lists of ministers and members, and information about church activities. Includes photographs.
Date Created: 1980
PID: grinnell:20604

Title: Newburg Congregational Church
Description: Newburg Congregational Church in Newburg, Iowa. The church, which was built in 1896, was first organized in 1880. "By Geo. W. Palmer" is written on the photo.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:20223

Title: Newburg Congregational Church
Description: Newburg Congregational Church in Newburg, Iowa, after a snowstorm, possibly taken in the 1910s or 1920s. The church was built by Anson Hayden Palmer.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:12003

Title: Newburg Elevator
Description: The Newburg (Iowa) elevator in the early 1940s. The elevator was built in 1917 and demolished in 2014. Itel Gillespie and Mac (Glenn) McCarel are standing in front of the elevator. On the verso of the photo is a handwritten history of the elevator and the town which was probably written in the late 1960s. It reads: Newburg founded 1878. 100 years ago there were 2 grain elevators constructed of wood. Then in 1917-1918 a poured concrete elevator and a block warehouse were built and still in use. 3 grocery stores that burned. The present building that still stands was a grocery store, but now is an apartment house. The railroad depot was demolished about 5 years ago. A water tank furnished water to the steam engines. A stock yard was available for the farmers cattle and hogs. We had our own post office. The creamery building still stands and did a route business and part of the building used as an ice house. We once had a prosperous bank, but it closed in 1933. There have been 2 blacksmith shops, a lumber yard. The farmers owned a telephone switchboard. One of the residents owned and operated a Model T agency. At one time we had 2 churches, the Church of God and the Congregational, this is now known as the UCC. A KP hall served as community center where the women gathered to sew during World War I. The lower floor housed new farm machinery. Our school is still operating and it now serves just 6th graders and one kindergarten class. In 1964 a newly formed organization known as Newburg Community Service Association dug a 225 foot well. It serves all homes business, school and church.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20602

Title: Newburg General Store
Description: The former Newburg General Store in Newburg, Iowa. Dorothy Palmer and her son, David Yandell are standing in front. Charles Austin and Nora Belle Palmer lived above the store with their family in the early 20th century. Abi (Alden) and Anson Palmer (Charles' parents) were married and began farming in what became Newburg in 1877. In 1881, Abi's brother, George Alden, bought the little general store on the land they were farming for Abi and George's mother, Louisa, and unmarried sister, Vesta, to live in. In 1920 or 1921 the apartment above the general store was available and Charles Austin Palmer and his wife, Nora Belle (Brown), lived there with their children when they returned to Newburg in 1920 or 1921, after building houses in Carpenter, Wyoming for a few years. Philip Palmer was born here and the family continued to reside above the store until around 1928, when they moved to Grinnell.
Date Created: 2008
PID: grinnell:12024

Title: Newburg Home built by Charles Austin Palmer
Description: Home at 15102 Newcomer Avenue in Newburg, Iowa, built by Charles Austin Palmer with Dorothy Palmer standing on the steps.
Date Created: 2008
PID: grinnell:12022

Title: Newburg School
Description: An early view of the Newburg School in Newburg, Iowa. A small house is visible to the left. The Newburg School was built in 1925.
Date Created: 1925
PID: grinnell:12005